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Install PureOS

NOTE: GUIDE IS A WIP AND WILL WIPE YOUR LIBREM 5

Put Librem 5 in flashing mode

  • To put the phone into flash mode, unplug charging cable, remove battery, hold the Vol+ button and then re-insert battery and plug in USB cable to computer.
  • Run lsusb | grep NXP in Tilix/Terminal
  • If you see Bus 001 Device 012: ID 1fc9:012b NXP Semiconductors i.MX 8M Dual/8M QuadLite/8M Quad Serial Downloader then you're good. If not, try flipping the USB-C cable going into the phone and trying again.

Setup and flash your Librem 5

  • In Tilix/Terminal, run sudo apt install librem5-devkit-host
  • Then wget https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/librem5-devkit-tools/-/raw/master/scripts/librem5-flash-image
  • To make it executable, run chmod +x librem5-flash-image
  • Finally, run ./librem5-flash-image --board librem5r3 to flash your phone.